Data Processing Method and Data Processing System

ABSTRACT

The invention provides a data processing method, comprising: a first terminal performs image acquisition on at least one photographic object entity, and encodes the image and corresponding recognition information to form video data which is sent to a second terminal; the second terminal performs data separation on the video data to obtain a video file and recognition information associated with at least one photographic object in the video file; the second terminal recognizes at least one photographic object in the video file according to the recognition information, and forms a corresponding operation area in the video file; and when the video file is played, the second terminal performs an associated operation function according to a detected operation action on a designated operation area.

FIELD OF THE INVENTION

The present invention relates to the field of data processingtechnology, and specifically relates to a data processing method and adata processing system.

BACKGROUND OF THE INVENTION

At present, when shopping online, a user purchases products by browsingwebpage pictures, but unfortunately the deviation between the real goodspurchased and the online photos is relatively large, which results in alot of disputes.

The user cannot fully know about an object through the pictures, but ifthe same object is described by means of video, especially through videoacquisition performed on the real goods in offline stores, the userperception of the same object will undoubtedly be enhanced, and theuser's shopping experience will be greatly improved by helping andallowing the user to perform an operation on objects of interest whilewatching the video.

In the prior art, however, in the process of watching a video, forexample when seeing some items of interest, people cannot performoperations such as purchasing unless otherwise by searching on thenetwork and so forth.

For example, the user has to separately open a browser, search byentering the name of the item, or “Search by Image” after a screenshotis taken, so as to enter the website of an online business and then makethe purchase. By entering the name of the item and so forth, it isdifficult indeed to successfully find the relevant item by search, andeven more difficult to perform operations such as purchasing when theuser cannot know its exact name.

Therefore, there is a need for a new technical solution, whereby aphotographic object in a video may be recognized, and a user may, whenwatching the video, directly perform an operation on the photographicobject in the video without needing to perform operations by separatelysearching the network and so forth, so as to help simplify the useroperation and improve the user experience.

SUMMARY OF THE INVENTION

Just based on the above problem, the invention provides a new dataprocessing scheme, whereby a photographic object in a video may berecognized, and a user may, when watching the video, directly perform anoperation the photographic object in the video without needing toperform operations by separately searching the network and so forth, soas to help simplify the user operation and improve the user experience.

In view of this, the present invention provides a data processingmethod, including: a first terminal performs image acquisition on atleast one photographic object entity, and encodes the acquired image andrecognition information corresponding to at least one of thephotographic object entities to form video data which is sent to asecond terminal through a network; the second terminal receives thevideo data, performs data separation on the video data to obtain a videofile and recognition information associated with at least onephotographic object in the video file; the second terminal recognizes atleast one photographic object in the video file according to therecognition information, and forms an operation area corresponding to atleast one of the photographic objects in the video file; and when thevideo file is played, the second terminal, according to a detectedoperation action on a designated operation area, performs an operationfunction associated with a designated photographic object correspondingto the designated operation area.

In the technical solution, through recognition of the photographicobject in the video, a user may, when watching a video, directly performan operation on the recognized object, so as to improve the userexperience. The corresponding operation area created by recognizing thephotographic object in the video may be an area corresponding to theedge of display of the photographic object, or a rectangular area or thelike which contains the photographic object; specifically, the operationarea may be transparent, or may be displayed in a certain condition (forexample when a video playing mode capable of showing the operation areais set and entered). Since the video is dynamic, when the photographicobject in the video moves (it moves on its own, or the relative positionof the photographic object is changed on the terminal screen due to themovement of the lens), the corresponding operation area should alsochange accordingly so that the user only has to directly perform anoperation on the photographic object without needing to pay specialattention to the position of the operating area.

Preferably, the video data may be obtained and then transmitted to thesecond terminal by the first terminal, or especially may be obtained inreal time by the first terminal and transmitted to the second terminalthrough the network. When in the process of shooting, the first terminalobtains the recognition information of the photographic object beingshot, and the first terminal encodes that information and thephotographic video file into video data, so the first terminal does nothave to perform analysis and feature acquisition on the photographicobject, thus reducing the requirement for the first terminal, andfacilitating recognition of the photographic object in the video by thesecond terminal.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: the first terminal receives recognition informationcorresponding thereto sent by at least one of the photographic objectentities, so as to encode the information into the video data.

In the technical solution, the recognition information may be obtainedby the first terminal from the photographic object entity, which helpsestablish an actual association between the recognition information andthe specific photographic object entity to facilitate managing thephotographic object entity and the corresponding recognitioninformation.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: the second terminal matches the content in the image frame ofthe video file with pre-stored recognition features to recognize atleast one photographic object in the video file.

In the technical solution, the recognition features of one or moreobjects are pre-stored in the second terminal or in a cloud storagespace corresponding to the second terminal, so that at any moment afterthe second terminal obtains the video file, or in the process of playingthe video file (pre-obtained or received in real time), the content inthe image frame of the video is matched with pre-stored recognitionfeatures to recognize the photographic object in the video. Since thepre-stored recognition features are used, no special requirement existsfor the video file itself, all video files may be suitable for thetechnical solution, they may be downloaded from the network by thesecond terminal, obtained from another terminal, or shot by the secondterminal itself, and thus there is greater versatility. Meanwhile, sincethe photographic object in a video file is not always in change, afterthe photographic object in an image frame is recognized, the image framemay be compared with the pixel information in one or more image framesfollowing it to determine whether a change in the photographic objectoccurs; if a change exists, recognition may be performed; otherwise, nore-recognition is needed, so as to help improve the recognitionefficiency and reduce the requirement for the processing capability ofthe terminal.

Accordingly, each pre-stored recognition feature may, in simple terms,be the image of an object, in which case the object may be recognized bycomparing with the picture in the video file; further, the recognitionfeatures may also be some characteristic parameters; for example, for“clothes”, parameters such as “an opening in the front and symmetricalsleeves to the left and right” may be included so that the secondterminal can “know” what “clothes” are, and additionally with thefeatures such as color, size, and style of the clothes themselves whichneed to be recognized, intelligent recognition of the “clothes” may berealized by the second terminal. Meanwhile, that the recognition featureis pre-stored in the second terminal itself and that it is according tothe recognition information sent by the first terminal are notcontradictory; the object may be recognized by only using one of them,or using both at the same time.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the process of the secondterminal performing data separation on the video data includes:analyzing the video data, extracting a recognition frame from the videodata, and obtaining the video file remaining after the recognition frameis extracted; and further extracting the recognition information fromthe recognition frame, so as to perform a recognition operation on thevideo file.

In the technical solution, a recognition frame containing recognitioninformation may be added to the middle or both ends of the data streamcorresponding to the video file. In order to realize the separation ofthe video data, the frame head part of the recognition frame shouldcontain type identification for recognizing the type of the recognitionframe in the video data by the second terminal; after the above typeidentification is recognized, it is determined that the data frame is arecognition frame; specifically, for example the recognition frame headmainly consists of special characters, so as to identify the recognitionframe. After that, the second terminal continues to analyze otherinformation such as recognition frame length, so as to completelydetermine the corresponding recognition frame. The recognition frameshould further include an information part which contains therecognition information and the like of the photographic object, so asto recognize the photographic object in the video. The way of using therecognition frame can make it convenient that the recognitioninformation is encoded in the video data, and make it convenient thatthe recognition frame is worked out from the video data by analysis, therecognition information of the photographic object is extracted from theinformation part of the recognition frame, and the photographic objectin the video file is recognized through the recognition information.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: at least one of the first terminals is taken as a parent node,and all of the photographic object entities are taken as children nodes,so as to form an Ad Hoc hierarchical network structure.

In the technical solution, the Ad Hoc hierarchical network structuredoes not have to rely on the existing fixed communication networkinfrastructure, and can rapidly spread the used network system. Networknodes in the network cooperate with each other, and communicate andexchange information via wireless links, to share information andservice. Each network node can dynamically, optionally, frequently enterand leave the network often without needing to warn or inform inadvance, and without damaging the communication between other nodes inthe network. The first terminal may be a camera, the camera is taken asthe parent node of Ad Hoc, the photographic objects (such as clothes)are taken as the children nodes, then according to the structuralcharacteristics of the Ad Hoc network, one parent node (i.e., camera)may correspond to a plurality of children nodes (i.e., a plurality ofthe above information transceiving devices), and different network nodesdo not influence each other, so as to improve the stability andflexibility of the video acquisition system.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: the first terminal further receives controllable informationcorresponding thereto sent by the at least one of the photographicobject entities, wherein the first terminal encodes the controllableinformation and the recognition information in association into thevideo data, and the second terminal further obtains controllableinformation associated with at least one of the photographic objectsfrom the video data, and performs an operation function on thedesignated photographic object according to the controllable informationwhen the operation action on the designated operation area is detected;or when the second terminal detects the operation action on thedesignated operating area and reports the detection result up to thefirst terminal, the first terminal sends the controllable informationcorresponding to the designated operation area to the second terminal sothat the second terminal performs an operation function on thedesignated photographic object according to the controllableinformation.

In the technical solution, the second terminal may perform defaultprocessing operations on all photographic objects, for example performamplification processing on all of the clicked photographic objects,store each clicked photographic object, or directly call a browser toperform “Search by Image” on the clicked photographic object. Certainly,in order to realize more processing operation modes, the controllableinformation and recognition information may be associated and encodedinto the video data, so that when the user performs an operation on therecognized photographic object, the second terminal performs acorresponding function according to the controllable information.Specifically, the controllable information may be encoded into the aboverecognition frame, or separately encoded as a control information frame,and the recognition frame (the control information frame may also beincluded) is integrated with the video file obtained by shooting so asto form video data. The second terminal performs a correspondingfunction according to the controllable information worked out byanalysis. After being worked out by analysis by the second terminal, thecontrollable information may, together with the associated recognitioninformation, be stored in a matching database, then when the userperforms an operation on the recognized photographic object, thecontrollable information associated with the recognition information ofthe designated object is retrieved from the matching database to performan operation function on the photographic object.

Certainly, when the first terminal encodes the controllable informationinto the video data, the controllable information and the recognitioninformation associated with the photographic object in the video dataare often sent together to the second terminal; however, in order tosave network resources and increase the transmission speed of the videodata, the first terminal may, according to the detection result reportedby the second terminal, send the corresponding controllable informationto the second terminal only when an operation action exists in theoperation area corresponding to a photographic object, which helps savethe storage space of the second terminal.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the controllableinformation includes: menu data, link information, and control command;and the operating function accordingly includes: creating and displayinga corresponding interactive menu according to the menu data, opening thelink information, and executing the control command.

In the technical solution, specifically, for example when the userwatches a shopping video by a cellphone, the cellphone recognizes apiece of clothing in the video, the user touches the screen to click onthe operation area of the clothing, an interactive menu for examplecontaining “buy, price, advice” pops up, or the “buy” page is directlylinked to, and there may also be an amplification processing on theclothing image and so forth, so the further operation of the user isfacilitated.

The present invention further provides a data processing system,including a first terminal and a second terminal, wherein the firstterminal includes an image acquisition unit for performing imageacquisition on at least one photographic object entity; an encoding unitfor encoding the acquired image and recognition informationcorresponding to at least one of the photographic object entities toform video data; and a video data sending unit for sending the videodata formed by the encoding unit to the second terminal through anetwork; meanwhile, the second terminal includes: a video data receivingunit for receiving the video data; a data separation unit for performingdata separation on the video data to obtain a video file and recognitioninformation associated with at least one photographic object in thevideo file; an recognizing unit for recognizing at least onephotographic object in the video file according to the recognitioninformation; an operation area creating unit for, according to the atleast one recognized photographic object, forming an operation areacorresponding to at least one of the photographic objects in the videofile; a video playing unit for playing the video file; an operationaction detecting unit for detecting an operation action on a designatedoperation area when the video playing unit plays the video file; and aprocessing unit for performing an operation function associated with thedesignated photographic object corresponding to the designated operationarea when an operation action on the designated operation area isdetected by the operation action detecting unit.

In the technical solution, through recognition of the photographicobject in the video, a user may, when watching a video, directly performan operation on the recognized object, so as to improve the userexperience. The video file here may be a video transmitted in a wired orwireless mode after being shot by a camera in real time, or a nonreal-time video shot at any other moment. The corresponding operationarea created by recognizing the photographic object in the video may bean area corresponding to the edge of display of the photographic object,or a rectangular area or the like which contains the photographicobject; specifically, the operation area may be transparent, or may bedisplayed in a certain condition (for example when a video playing modecapable of showing the operation area is set and entered). Since thevideo is dynamic, when the photographic object in the video moves (itmoves on its own, or the relative position of the photographic object ischanged on the terminal screen due to the movement of the lens), thecorresponding operation area should also change accordingly so that theuser only has to directly perform an operation on the photographicobject without needing to pay special attention to the position of theoperating area.

Preferably, the video data may be obtained and then transmitted to thesecond terminal by the first terminal, or especially may be obtained inreal time by the first terminal and transmitted to the second terminalthrough the network. When in the process of shooting, the first terminalobtains the recognition information of the photographic object beingshot, and the first terminal encodes that information and thephotographic video file into video data, so the first terminal does nothave to perform analysis and feature acquisition on the photographicobject, thus reducing the requirement for the first terminal, andfacilitating recognition of the photographic object in the video by thesecond terminal.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the first terminal furtherincludes: an information receiving unit for receiving recognitioninformation corresponding thereto sent by at least one of thephotographic object entities, so as to encode the information into thevideo data.

In the technical solution, the recognition information may be obtainedby the first terminal from the photographic object entity, which helpsestablish an actual association between the recognition information andthe specific photographic object entity to facilitate managing thephotographic object entity and the corresponding recognitioninformation.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the second terminal furtherincludes: a pre-storing unit for pre-storing recognition features,wherein the recognizing unit matches the content in the image frame ofthe video file with the recognition features pre-stored in thepre-storing unit to recognize at least one photographic object in thevideo file.

In the technical solution, the recognition features of one or moreobjects is pre-stored in the second terminal or in a cloud storage spacecorresponding to the second terminal, so that at any moment after thesecond terminal obtains the video file, or in the process of playing thevideo file (pre-obtained or received in real time), the content in theimage frame of the video is matched with pre-stored recognition featuresto recognize the photographic object in the video. Since the pre-storedrecognition features are used, no special requirement exists for thevideo file itself, all video files may be suitable for the technicalsolution, they may be downloaded from the network by the secondterminal, obtained from another terminal, or shot by the second terminalitself, and thus there is greater versatility. Meanwhile, since thephotographic object in a video file is not always in change, after thephotographic object in an image frame is recognized, the image frame maybe compared with the pixel information in one or more image framesfollowing it to determine whether a change in the photographic objectoccurs; if a change exists, recognition may be performed; otherwise, nore-recognition is needed, so as to help improve the recognitionefficiency and reduce the requirement for the processing capability ofthe terminal.

Accordingly, each pre-stored recognition feature may, in simple terms,be the image of an object, in which case the object may be recognized bycomparing with the picture in the video file; further, the recognitionfeatures may also be some characteristic parameters; for example, for“clothes”, parameters such as “an opening in the front and symmetricalsleeves to the left and right” may be included so that the secondterminal can “know” what “clothes” are, and additionally with thefeatures such as color, size, and style of the clothes themselves whichneed to be recognized, intelligent recognition of the “clothes” may berealized by the second terminal. Meanwhile, that the recognition featureis pre-stored in the second terminal itself and that it is according tothe recognition information sent by the first terminal are notcontradictory; the object may be recognized by only using one of them,or using both at the same time.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the data separation unitincludes: a frame extraction subunit for extracting a recognition framefrom the video data, and obtaining the video file remaining after therecognition frame is extracted; a frame analysis subunit for furtherextracting the recognition information from the recognition frame, so asto allow the recognition unit to perform a recognition operation on thevideo file.

In the technical solution, a recognition frame containing recognitioninformation may be added to the middle or both ends of the data streamcorresponding to the video file. In order to realize the separation ofthe video data, the frame head part of the recognition frame shouldcontain type identification for recognizing the type of the recognitionframe in the video data by the second terminal; after the above typeidentification is recognized, it is determined that the data frame is arecognition frame; specifically, for example the recognition frame headmainly consists of special characters, so as to identify the recognitionframe. After that, the second terminal continues to analyze otherinformation such as recognition frame length, so as to completelydetermine the corresponding recognition frame. The recognition frameshould further include an information part which contains therecognition information and the like of the photographic object, so asto recognize the photographic object in the video. The way of using therecognition frame can make it convenient that the recognitioninformation is encoded in the video data, and make it convenient thatthe recognition frame is worked out from the video data by analysis, therecognition information of the photographic object is extracted from theinformation part of the recognition frame, and the photographic objectin the video file is recognized through the recognition information.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: at least one of the first terminals is taken as a parent node,and all of the photographic object entities are taken as children nodes,so as to form an Ad Hoc hierarchical network structure.

In the technical solution, the Ad Hoc hierarchical network structuredoes not have to rely on the existing fixed communication networkinfrastructure, and can rapidly spread the used network system. Networknodes in the network cooperate with each other, and communicate andexchange information via wireless links, to share information andservice. Each network node can dynamically, optionally, frequently enterand leave the network often without needing to warn or inform inadvance, and without damaging the communication between other nodes inthe network. The first terminal may be a camera, the camera is taken asthe parent node of Ad Hoc, the photographic objects (such as clothes)are taken as the children nodes, then according to the structuralcharacteristics of the Ad Hoc network, one parent node (i.e., camera)may correspond to a plurality of children nodes (i.e., a plurality ofthe above information transceiving devices), and different network nodesdo not influence each other, so as to improve the stability andflexibility of the video acquisition system.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the first terminal furtherreceives controllable information corresponding thereto sent by the atleast one of the photographic object entities, wherein the encoding unitis further used for encoding the controllable information and therecognition information in association into the video data; the dataseparation unit is further used for obtaining controllable informationassociated with at least one of the photographic objects from the videodata; the processing unit is further used for performing an operationfunction on the designated photographic object according to thecontrollable information when the operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected; or when an operation action on thedesignated operating area is detected, the second terminal furtherreports the detection result up to the first terminal, and the firstterminal sends the controllable information corresponding to thedesignated operation area accordingly to the second terminal so that theprocessing unit performs an operation function on the designatedphotographic object according to the controllable information.

In the technical solution, the second terminal may perform defaultprocessing operations on all photographic objects, for example performamplification processing on all of the clicked photographic objects,store each clicked photographic object, or directly call a browser toperform “Search by Image” on the clicked photographic object. Certainly,in order to realize more processing operation modes, the controllableinformation and recognition information may be associated and encodedinto the video data, so that when the user performs an operation on therecognized photographic object, the second terminal performs acorresponding function according to the controllable information.Specifically, the controllable information may be encoded into the aboverecognition frame, or separately encoded as a control information frame,and the recognition frame (the control information frame may also beincluded) is integrated with the video file obtained by shooting so asto form video data. The second terminal performs a correspondingfunction according to the controllable information worked out byanalysis. After being worked out by analysis by the second terminal, thecontrollable information may, together with the associated recognitioninformation, be stored in a matching database, then when the userperforms an operation on the recognized photographic object, thecontrollable information associated with the recognition information ofthe designated object is retrieved from the matching database to performan operation function on the photographic object.

Certainly, when the first terminal encodes the controllable informationinto the video data, the controllable information and the recognitioninformation associated with the photographic object in the video dataare often sent together to the second terminal; however, in order tosave network resources and increase the transmission speed of the videodata, the first terminal may, according to the detection result reportedby the second terminal, send the corresponding controllable informationto the second terminal only when an operation action exists in theoperation area corresponding to a photographic object, which helps savethe storage space of the second terminal.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the controllableinformation separated by the data separation unit includes: menu data,link information, and control command; and the operating functionperformed by the processing unit accordingly includes: creating anddisplaying a corresponding interactive menu according to the menu data,opening the link information, and executing the control command.

In the technical solution, specifically, for example when the userwatches a shopping video by a cellphone, the cellphone recognizes apiece of clothing in the video, and the user touches the screen to clickon the operation area of the clothing, then an interactive menu forexample containing “buy, price, advice” pops up, or the “buy” page isdirectly linked to, and there may also be an amplification processing onthe clothing image and so forth, so the further operation of the user isfacilitated.

According to the above technical solution, the photographic object inthe video may be recognized, and a user may, when watching a video,directly perform an operation on the photographic object in the videowithout needing to perform operations by separately searching thenetwork and so forth, which helps simplify the user operation andimprove the user experience.

BRIEF DESCRIPTION OF THE DRAWINGS

FIG. 1 shows a flowchart of a data processing method according to anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a data processing system according to anembodiment of the present invention;

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of an intelligent video interactive systembased on an Ad Hoc network structure according to an embodiment of thepresent invention;

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of an intelligent video interactive systemaccording to an embodiment of the present invention; and

FIGS. 5A-5C show schematic diagrams of an intelligent video interactivesystem according to an embodiment of the present invention.

DETAILED DESCRIPTION OF THE EMBODIMENTS

In order to enable a clearer understanding of the above objects,features, and advantages of the present invention, the present inventionis further described in detail below in conjunction with theaccompanying drawings and the specific embodiments. It should be notedthat, without conflict, the embodiments of the present application andthe features in the embodiments may be combined with each other.

In the following description, numerous specific details are set forth inorder to fully understand the present invention; however, the presentinvention can also be implemented in other ways different from thosedescribed herein; therefore, the scope of the present invention is notlimited to the specific embodiments disclosed below.

FIG. 1 shows a flowchart of a data processing method according to anembodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 1, the data processing method according to theembodiment of the present invention includes: step 102, a first terminalperforms image acquisition on at least one photographic object entity,and encodes the acquired image and recognition information correspondingto at least one of the photographic object entities to form video datawhich is sent to a second terminal through a network; step 104, thesecond terminal receives the video data, performs data separation on thevideo data to obtain a video file and recognition information associatedwith at least one photographic object in the video file; step 106, thesecond terminal recognizes at least one photographic object in the videofile according to the recognition information, and forms an operationarea corresponding to at least one of the photographic objects in thevideo file; and step 108, when the video file is played, according to adetected operation action on a designated operation area, the secondterminal performs an operation function associated with a designatedphotographic object corresponding to the designated operation area.

In the technical solution, through recognition of the photographicobject in the video, a user may, when watching a video, directly performan operation on the recognized object, so as to improve the userexperience. The video file here may be a video transmitted in a wired orwireless mode after being shot by a camera in real time, or a nonreal-time video shot at any other moment. The corresponding operationarea created by recognizing the photographic object in the video may bean area corresponding to the edge of display of the photographic object,or a rectangular area or the like which contains the photographicobject; specifically, the operation area may be transparent, or may bedisplayed in a certain condition (for example when a video playing modecapable of showing the operation area is set and entered). Since thevideo is dynamic, when the photographic object in the video moves (itmoves on its own, or the relative position of the photographic object ischanged on the terminal screen due to the movement of the lens), thecorresponding operation area should also change accordingly so that theuser only has to directly perform an operation on the photographicobject without needing to pay special attention to the position of theoperating area.

Preferably, the video data may be obtained and then transmitted to thesecond terminal by the first terminal, or especially may be obtained inreal time by the first terminal and transmitted to the second terminalthrough the network. When in the process of shooting, the first terminalobtains the recognition information of the photographic object beingshot, and encodes that information and the photographic video file intovideo data, so the first terminal does not have to perform analysis andfeature acquisition on the photographic object, thus reducing therequirement for the first terminal, and facilitating recognition of thephotographic object in the video by the second terminal.

Specifically, for example when watching a video by a cellphone, computeror other terminal device, a user clicks on a piece of clothing in thevideo (or instead, for example, places the mouse in the operation areacorresponding to the photographic object); if the clothing is arecognized photographic object, then a corresponding operation may berealized, which includes, for example, linking to a webpage (calling abrowser and switching to the browser interface, or displaying on thevideo player interface in the form of a bubble box) that provides thebrand information and/or purchase information about the clothing; foranother example, a menu containing “buy, price, advice” (which is takenas an example, and the menu may also contain other information) pops up,and the user may realize further control operation by selectionoperations on the menu.

In addition, the photographic object entity corresponds to a storagedevice and an information transceiving device, wherein the storagedevice stores the recognition information of the photographic objectentity, which is pre-stored in the storage device, and the informationtransceiving device is used for sending the recognition information tothe first terminal. When the first terminal performs an acquisition onthe recognition information of the photographic object entity, it may beachieved by sending a recognition information acquisition instruction,and then the information transceiving device receiving that instructionsends corresponding recognition information to the first terminal. Thestorage device and the information transceiving device may be located inthe photographic object entity; for example, the photographic objectentity is a smart phone; the storage device and the informationtransceiving device may also be associated with the photographic objectentity, for example be connected to the photographic object entity, beplaced near the photographic object entity, or be such that since thestorage device contains the recognition information of a photographicobject entity and the information transceiving device is used fortransmitting the recognition information, the photographic object entityis considered to be associated with the storage device and theinformation transceiving device.

Further, one storage device may correspond to one or more photographicobject entities, and one information transceiving device may alsocorrespond to one or more storage devices. When receiving therecognition information acquisition instruction sent by the firstterminal, the information transceiving device may send all of therecognition information in the storage device associated therewith tothe first terminal; or it is also possible to provide another imageacquisition device, which determines the photographic object entity shotby it by monitoring the real-time state of the first terminal, so thatthe information transceiving device only sends this part of recognitioninformation of the photographic object entity capable of being shot tothe first terminal, and so that the amount of data to be processed bythe first terminal is reduced.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: the first terminal receives recognition informationcorresponding thereto sent by at least one of the photographic objectentities, so as to encode the information into the video data.

In the technical solution, the recognition information may be obtainedby the first terminal from the photographic object entity, which helpsestablish an actual association between the recognition information andthe specific photographic object entity to facilitate managing thephotographic object entity and the corresponding recognitioninformation.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: the second terminal matches the content in the image frame ofthe video file with pre-stored recognition features to recognize atleast one photographic object in the video file.

In the technical solution, the recognition features of one or moreobjects are pre-stored in the second terminal or in a cloud storagespace corresponding to the second terminal, so that at any moment afterthe second terminal obtains the video file, or in the process of playingthe video file (pre-obtained or received in real time), the content inthe image frame of the video is matched with pre-stored recognitionfeatures to recognize the photographic object in the video. Since thepre-stored recognition features are used, no special requirement existsfor the video file itself, all video files may be suitable for thetechnical solution, they may be downloaded from the network by thesecond terminal, obtained from another terminal, or shot by the secondterminal itself, and thus there is greater versatility. Meanwhile, sincethe photographic object in a video file is not always in change, afterthe photographic object in an image frame is recognized, the image framemay be compared with the pixel information in one or more image framesfollowing it to determine whether a change in the photographic objectoccurs; if a change exists, recognition may be performed; otherwise, nore-recognition is needed, so as to help improve the recognitionefficiency and reduce the requirement for the processing capability ofthe terminal.

Accordingly, each pre-stored recognition feature may, in simple terms,be the image of an object, in which case the object may be recognized bycomparing with the picture in the video file; further, the recognitionfeatures may also be some characteristic parameters; for example, for“clothes”, parameters such as “an opening in the front and symmetricalsleeves to the left and right” may be included so that the secondterminal can “know” what “clothes” are, and additionally with thefeatures such as color, size, and style of the clothes themselves whichneed to be recognized, intelligent recognition of the “clothes” may berealized by the second terminal. Meanwhile, that the recognition featureis pre-stored in the second terminal itself and that it is according tothe recognition information sent by the first terminal are notcontradictory; the object may be recognized by only using one of them,or using both at the same time.

Preferably, in the above technical solution, the process of the secondterminal performing data separation on the video data includes:analyzing the video data, extracting a recognition frame from the videodata, and obtaining the video file remaining after the recognition frameis extracted; and further extracting the recognition information fromthe recognition frame, so as to perform a recognition operation on thevideo file.

In the technical solution, a recognition frame containing recognitioninformation may be added to the middle or both ends of the data streamcorresponding to the video file. In order to realize the separation ofthe video data, the frame head part of the recognition frame shouldcontain type identification for recognizing the type of the recognitionframe in the video data by the second terminal; after the above typeidentification is recognized, it is determined that the data frame is arecognition frame; specifically, for example the recognition frame headmainly consists of special characters, so as to identify the recognitionframe. After that, the second terminal continues to analyze otherinformation such as recognition frame length, so as to completelydetermine the corresponding recognition frame. The recognition frameshould further include an information part which contains therecognition information and the like of the photographic object, so asto recognize the photographic object in the video. The way of using therecognition frame can make it convenient that the recognitioninformation is encoded in the video data, and make it convenient thatthe recognition frame is worked out from the video data by analysis, therecognition information of the photographic object is extracted from theinformation part of the recognition frame, and the photographic objectin the video file is recognized through the recognition information.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: at least one of the first terminals is taken as a parent node,and all of the photographic object entities are taken as children nodes,so as to form an Ad Hoc hierarchical network structure.

In the technical solution, the Ad Hoc hierarchical network structuredoes not have to rely on the existing fixed communication networkinfrastructure, and can rapidly spread the used network system. Networknodes in the network cooperate with each other, and communicate andexchange information via wireless links, to share information andservice. Each network node can dynamically, optionally, frequently enterand leave the network often without needing to warn or inform inadvance, and without damaging the communication between other nodes inthe network. The first terminal may be a camera, the camera is taken asthe parent node of Ad Hoc, the photographic objects (such as clothes)are taken as the children nodes, then according to the structuralcharacteristics of the Ad Hoc network, one parent node (i.e., camera)may correspond to a plurality of children nodes (i.e., a plurality ofthe above information transceiving devices), and different network nodesdo not influence each other, so as to improve the stability andflexibility of the video acquisition system.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: the first terminal further receives controllable informationcorresponding thereto sent by the at least one of the photographicobject entities, wherein the first terminal encodes the controllableinformation and the recognition information in association into thevideo data, and the second terminal further obtains controllableinformation associated with at least one of the photographic objectsfrom the video data, and performs an operation function on thedesignated photographic object according to the controllable informationwhen the operation action on the designated operation area is detected;or when the second terminal detects the operation action on thedesignated operating area and reports the detection result up to thefirst terminal, the first terminal sends the controllable informationcorresponding to the designated operation area to the second terminal sothat the second terminal performs an operation function on thedesignated photographic object according to the controllableinformation.

In the technical solution, the second terminal may perform defaultprocessing operations on all photographic objects, for example performamplification processing on all of the clicked photographic objects,store each clicked photographic object, or directly call a browser toperform “Search by Image” on the clicked photographic object. Certainly,in order to realize more processing operation modes, the controllableinformation and recognition information may be associated and encodedinto the video data, so that when the user performs an operation on therecognized photographic object, the second terminal performs acorresponding function according to the controllable information.Specifically, the controllable information may be encoded into the aboverecognition frame, or separately encoded as a control information frame,and the recognition frame (the control information frame may also beincluded) is integrated with the video file obtained by shooting so asto form video data. The second terminal performs a correspondingfunction according to the controllable information worked out byanalysis. After being worked out by analysis by the second terminal, thecontrollable information may, together with the associated recognitioninformation, be stored in a matching database, then when the userperforms an operation on the recognized photographic object, thecontrollable information associated with the recognition information ofthe designated object is retrieved from the matching database to performan operation function on the photographic object.

Certainly, when the first terminal encodes the controllable informationinto the video data, the controllable information and the recognitioninformation associated with the photographic object in the video dataare often sent together to the second terminal; however, in order tosave network resources and increase the transmission speed of the videodata, the first terminal may, according to the detection result reportedby the second terminal, send the corresponding controllable informationto the second terminal only when an operation action exists in theoperation area corresponding to a photographic object, which helps savethe storage space of the second terminal.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the controllableinformation includes: menu data, link information, and control command;and the operating function accordingly includes: creating and displayinga corresponding interactive menu according to the menu data, opening thelink information, and executing the control command.

specifically, in the technical solution, for example when the userwatches a shopping video by a cellphone, the cellphone recognizes apiece of clothing in the video, and the user touches the screen to clickon the operation area of the clothing, then an interactive menu forexample containing “buy, price, advice” pops up, or the “buy” page isdirectly linked to, and there may also be an amplification processing onthe clothing image and so forth, so the further operation of the user isfacilitated.

FIG. 2 shows a block diagram of a data processing system according to anembodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 2, the data processing system 200 according to thepresent invention includes a first terminal 202 and a second terminal204, wherein the first terminal 202 includes an image acquisition unit202A for performing image acquisition on at least one photographicobject entity; an encoding unit 202B for encoding the acquired image andrecognition information corresponding to at least one of thephotographic object entities to form video data; and a video datasending unit 202C for sending the video data formed by the encoding unit202B to the second terminal 204 through a network; the second terminal204 includes: a video data receiving unit 204A for receiving the videodata; a data separation unit 204B for performing data separation on thevideo data to obtain a video file and recognition information associatedwith at least one photographic object in the video file; an recognizingunit 204C for recognizing at least one photographic object in the videofile according to the recognition information; an operation areacreating unit 204D for, according to the at least one recognizedphotographic object, forming an operation area corresponding to at leastone of the photographic objects in the video file; a video playing unit204E for playing the video file; an operation action detecting unit 204Ffor detecting an operation action on a designated operation area whenthe video playing unit 204E plays the video file; and a processing unit204G for performing an operation function associated with the designatedphotographic object corresponding to the designated operation area whenan operation action on the designated operation area is detected by theoperation action detecting unit 204F.

In the technical solution, through recognition of the photographicobject in the video, a user may, when watching a video, directly performan operation on the recognized object, so as to improve the userexperience. The video file here may be a video transmitted in a wired orwireless mode after being shot by a camera in real time, or a nonreal-time video shot at any other moment. The corresponding operationarea created by recognizing the photographic object in the video may bean area corresponding to the edge of display of the photographic object,or a rectangular area or the like which contains the photographicobject; specifically, the operation area may be transparent, or may bedisplayed in a certain condition (for example when a video playing modecapable of showing the operation area is set and entered). Since thevideo is dynamic, when the photographic object in the video moves (itmoves on its own, or the relative position of the photographic object ischanged on the terminal screen due to the movement of the lens), thecorresponding operation area should also change accordingly so that theuser only has to directly perform an operation on the photographicobject without needing to pay special attention to the position of theoperating area.

Preferably, the video data may be obtained and then transmitted to thesecond terminal 204 by the first terminal 202, or especially may beobtained in real time by the first terminal 202 and transmitted to thesecond terminal 204 through the network. When in the process ofshooting, the first terminal 202 obtains the recognition information ofthe photographic object being shot, and the first terminal 202 encodesthat information and the photographic video file into video data, so thefirst terminal 202 does not have to perform analysis and featureacquisition on the photographic object, thus reducing the requirementfor the first terminal 202, and facilitating recognition of thephotographic object in the video by the second terminal 204.

Specifically, for example when watching a video by a cellphone, computeror other terminal device, a user clicks on a piece of clothing in thevideo (or instead, for example places the mouse in the operation areacorresponding to the photographic object); if the clothing is arecognized photographic object, then a corresponding operation may berealized, which includes, for example, linking to a webpage (calling abrowser and switching to the browser interface, or displaying on thevideo player interface in the form of a bubble box) that provides thebrand information and/or purchase information about the clothing; foranother example, a menu containing “buy, price, advice” (which is takenas an example, and the menu may also contain other information) pops up,and the user may realize further control operation by selectionoperations on the menu. In addition, the photographic object entitycorresponds to a storage device and an information transceiving device(not shown in the figure), wherein the storage device stores therecognition information of the photographic object entity, which ispre-stored in the storage device, and the information transceivingdevice is used for sending the recognition information to the firstterminal 202. When the first terminal 202 performs an acquisition on therecognition information of the photographic object entity, it may beachieved by sending a recognition information acquisition instruction,and then the information transceiving device receiving that instructionsends corresponding recognition information to the first terminal 202.The storage device and the information transceiving device may belocated in the photographic object entity; for example, the photographicobject entity is a smart phone; the storage device and the informationtransceiving device may also be associated with the photographic objectentity, for example be connected to the photographic object entity, beplaced near the photographic object entity, or be such that since thestorage device contains the recognition information of a photographicobject entity and the information transceiving device is used fortransmitting the recognition information, the photographic object entityis considered to be associated with the storage device and theinformation transceiving device.

Further, one storage device may correspond to one or more photographicobject entities, and one information transceiving device may alsocorrespond to one or more storage devices. When receiving therecognition information acquisition instruction sent by the firstterminal 202, the information transceiving device may send all of therecognition information in the storage device associated therewith tothe first terminal 202; or it is also possible to provide another imageacquisition device, which determines the photographic object entity shotby it by monitoring the real-time state of the first terminal 202, sothat the information transceiving device only sends this part ofrecognition information of the photographic object entity capable ofbeing shot to the first terminal 202, and so that the amount of data tobe processed by the first terminal 202 is reduced.

Preferably, in the above technical solution, the first terminal 202further includes: an information receiving unit 202D for receivingrecognition information corresponding thereto sent by at least one ofthe photographic object entities, so as to encode the information intothe video data.

In the technical solution, the recognition information may be obtainedby the first terminal 202 from the photographic object entity, whichhelps establish an actual association between the recognitioninformation and the specific photographic object entity to facilitatemanaging the photographic object entity and the correspondingrecognition information.

Preferably, in the above technical solution, the second terminal 204further includes: a pre-storing unit (not shown in the figure) forpre-storing recognition features, wherein the recognizing unit 204Cmatches the content in the image frame of the video file with therecognition features pre-stored in the pre-storing unit to recognize atleast one photographic object in the video file. In the technicalsolution, the recognition features of one or more objects are pre-storedin the second terminal 204 or in a cloud storage space corresponding tothe second terminal 204, so that at any moment after the second terminal204 obtains the video file, or in the process of playing the video file(pre-obtained or received in real time), the content in the image frameof the video is matched with pre-stored recognition features torecognize the photographic object in the video. Since the pre-storedrecognition features are used, no special requirement exists for thevideo file itself, all video files may be suitable for the technicalsolution, they may be downloaded from the network by the second terminal204, obtained from another terminal, or shot by the second terminal 204itself, and thus there is greater versatility. Meanwhile, since thephotographic object in a video file is not always in change, after thephotographic object in an image frame is recognized, the image frame maybe compared with the pixel information in one or more image framesfollowing it to determine whether a change in the photographic objectoccurs; if a change exists, recognition may be performed; otherwise, nore-recognition is needed, so as to help improve the recognitionefficiency and reduce the requirement for the processing capability ofthe terminal.

Accordingly, each pre-stored recognition feature may, in simple terms,be the image of an object, in which case the object may be recognized bycomparing with the picture in the video file; further, the recognitionfeatures may also be some characteristic parameters; for example, for“clothes”, parameters such as “an opening in the front and symmetricalsleeves to the left and right” may be included so that the secondterminal 204 can “know” what “clothes” are, and additionally with thefeatures such as color, size, and style of the clothes themselves whichneed be recognized, intelligent recognition of “clothes” may be realizedby the second terminal 204. Meanwhile, that the recognition feature ispre-stored in the second terminal 204 itself and that it is according tothe recognition information sent by the first terminal 202 are notcontradictory; the object may be recognized by only using one of them,or using both at the same time.

Preferably, in the above technical solution, the data separation unit204B includes: a frame extraction subunit (not shown in the figure) forextracting a recognition frame from the video data, and obtaining thevideo file remaining after the recognition frame is extracted; a frameanalysis subunit (not shown in the figure) for further extracting therecognition information from the recognition frame, so as to allow therecognition unit to perform a recognition operation on the video file.

In the technical solution, a recognition frame containing recognitioninformation may be added to the middle or both ends of the data streamcorresponding to the video file. In order to realize the separation ofthe video data, the frame head part of the recognition frame shouldcontain type identification for recognizing the type of the recognitionframe in the video data by the second terminal 204; after the above typeidentification is recognized, it is determined that the data frame is arecognition frame; specifically, for example the recognition frame headmainly consists of special characters, so as to identify the recognitionframe. After that, the second terminal 204 continues to analyze otherinformation such as recognition frame length, so as to completelydetermine the corresponding recognition frame. The recognition frameshould further include an information part which contains therecognition information and the like of the photographic object, so asto recognize the photographic object in the video. The way of using therecognition frame can make it convenient that the recognitioninformation is encoded in the video data, and make it convenient thatthe recognition frame is worked out from the video data by analysis, therecognition information of the photographic object is extracted from theinformation part of the recognition frame, and the photographic objectin the video file is recognized through the recognition information.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the method furtherincludes: at least one of the first terminals 202 is taken as a parentnode, and all of the photographic object entities are taken as childrennodes, so as to form an Ad Hoc hierarchical network structure.

In the technical solution, the Ad Hoc hierarchical network structuredoes not have to rely on the existing fixed communication networkinfrastructure, and can rapidly spread the used network system. Networknodes in the network cooperate with each other, and communicate andexchange information via wireless links, to share information andservice. Each network node can dynamically, optionally, frequently enterand leave the network often without needing to warn or inform inadvance, and without damaging the communication between other nodes inthe network. The first terminal 202 may be a camera, the camera is takenas the parent node of Ad Hoc, the photographic objects (such as clothes)are taken as the children nodes, then according to the structuralcharacteristics of the Ad Hoc network, one parent node (i.e., camera)may correspond to a plurality of children nodes (i.e., a plurality ofthe above information transceiving devices), and different network nodesdo not influence each other, so as to improve the stability andflexibility of the video acquisition system.

Preferably, in the above technical solution, the first terminal 202further receives controllable information corresponding thereto sent bythe at least one of the photographic object entities, wherein theencoding unit 202B is further used for encoding the controllableinformation and the recognition information in association into thevideo data, the data separation unit 204B is further used for obtainingcontrollable information associated with at least one of thephotographic objects from the video data, and the processing unit 204Gis further used for performing an operation function on the designatedphotographic object according to the controllable information when theoperation action on the designated operation area is detected; or whenthe second terminal 204 detects the operation action performed on thedesignated operating area, it further reports the detection result up tothe first terminal 202, and the first terminal 202 sends thecontrollable information corresponding to the designated operation areaaccordingly to the second terminal 204 so that the processing unit 204Gperforms an operation function on the designated photographic objectaccording to the controllable information.

In the technical solution, the second terminal 204 may perform defaultprocessing operations on all photographic objects, for example performamplification processing on all of the clicked photographic objects,store each clicked photographic object, or directly call a browser toperform “Search by Image” on the clicked photographic object. Certainly,in order to realize more processing operation modes, the controllableinformation and recognition information may be associated and encodedinto the video data, so that when the user performs an operation on therecognized photographic object, the second terminal 204 performs acorresponding function according to the controllable information.Specifically, the controllable information may be encoded into the aboverecognition frame, or separately encoded as a control information frame,and the recognition frame (the control information frame may also beincluded) is integrated with the video file obtained by shooting so asto form video data. The second terminal 204 performs a correspondingfunction according to the controllable information worked out byanalysis. After being worked out by analysis by the second terminal 204,the controllable information may, together with the associatedrecognition information, be stored in a matching database, then when theuser performs an operation on the recognized photographic object, thecontrollable information associated with the recognition information ofthe designated object is retrieved from the matching database to performan operation function on the photographic object. Certainly, when thefirst terminal 202 encodes the controllable information into the videodata, the controllable information and the recognition informationassociated with the photographic object in the video data are often senttogether to the second terminal 204; however, in order to save networkresources and increase the transmission speed of the video data, thefirst terminal 202 may, according to the detection result reported bythe second terminal 204, send the corresponding controllable informationto the second terminal 204 only when an operation action exists in theoperation area corresponding to a photographic object, which helps savethe storage space of the second terminal 204.

In the above technical solution, preferably, the controllableinformation separated by the data separation unit 204B includes: menudata, link information, and control command; and the operating functionperformed by the processing unit 204G accordingly includes: creating anddisplaying a corresponding interactive menu according to the menu data,opening the link information, and executing the control command.

specifically, in the technical solution, for example when the userwatches a shopping video by a cellphone, the cellphone recognizes apiece of clothing in the video, and the user touches the screen to clickon the operation area of the clothing, then an interactive menu forexample containing “buy, price, advice” pops up, or the “buy” page isdirectly linked to, and there may also be an amplification processing onthe clothing image and so forth, so the further operation of the user isfacilitated.

FIG. 3 shows a block diagram of an intelligent video interactive systembased on an Ad Hoc network structure according to an embodiment of thepresent invention.

As shown in FIG. 3, the intelligent video interactive system based onthe Ad Hoc network structure according to the embodiment of the presentinvention includes a client 302 and a server 304.

Used by the server 304 in the embodiment is an Ad Hoc hierarchicalnetwork structure for information acquisition to form video data for thedownloading by the client 302, and the client 302 may play it in realtime or at any time according to the needs. Network nodes in the Ad Hocnetwork cooperate with each other, and communicate and exchangeinformation via wireless links, to share information and service. Eachnetwork node can dynamically, optionally, frequently enter and leave thenetwork often without needing to warn or inform in advance, and withoutdamaging the communication between other nodes in the network, thusbeing greatly flexible. Certainly, the way of using the Ad Hoc networkstructure is only relatively preferred; if other network structure isused to realize the information acquisition process in the presentinvention, it should also be included in the protection scope of thepresent invention.

The server 304 includes:

a server 304A for providing downloading of video data by the client 302,wherein the video data may be video data containing a recognition frame,or a video file not containing a recognition frame. The server 304A maytransmit any of the two kinds of video data mentioned above according tothe different selections of the client.

The parent node 304B and the parent node 304C are the parent nodes inthe Ad Hoc network (apparently, the number of the parent nodes may varyaccording to the needs, namely the system may only contain one parentnode, or contain 2 or more parent nodes, and here the case of 2 nodes istaken as an example for illustration), the nodes do not affect eachother, and may dynamically, optionally, frequently enter and leave thenetwork so that the information acquisition system has greatflexibility. Here the parent node may be a camera, and is used fordynamically acquiring the image information of the photographic object(i.e., the children node) according to the request of the server 304A.When a parent node performs acquisition on the recognition informationand/or controllable information of a children node, it may be achievedby sending recognition information and/or controllable informationacquisition instruction, and then on receipt of that instruction, thechildren node sends corresponding recognition information and/orcontrollable information to the parent node. Accordingly, one parentnode may correspond to a plurality of children nodes. If the parent node304B corresponds to the children nodes 304D and 304E, the children nodes304D and 304E also do not affect each other.

The children nodes 304D, 304E, 304F, and 304G are children nodes in theAd Hoc network; like the parent nodes, they may dynamically, optionally,frequently enter and leave the network, and do not affect the work ofany other network node. On receipt of the instruction for acquiringrecognition information and/or controllable information which is sent bya parent node, the children node transmits the recognition informationand controllable information to the parent node.

The client 302 includes:

a receiving module 302A, a data separation unit 302B, a video decodingmodule 302C, an audio output module 302D, a matching database 302E, anintelligent recognition module 302F, and an intelligent interactiondisplay module 302G.

The receiving module 302A is used for receiving video data obtained fromthe server, the video data containing the recognition information forrecognizing the photographic object.

The data separation unit 302B is used for performing data separation onthe video data to obtain the video file and recognition informationassociated with at least one photographic object in the video file, andcontrollable information associated with the recognition information.Specifically, the video data contains a recognition frame, whichincludes characteristics such as recognition frame head, recognitionframe length and recognition frame information. The recognition framehead mainly consists of special characters, so as to identify therecognition frame; the recognition frame length is used to mark thelength of the recognition frame information; the recognition frameinformation part consists of special character code formats, andcontains the recognition information, controllable information and thelike of the photographic object. Therefore, the recognition frame may beseparated from the video data, and analyzed; the recognition informationand controllable information of the photographic object are extractedfrom the information part of the recognition frame, and the photographicobject in the video file is recognized through the recognitioninformation.

The video decoding module 302C is used for decoding the video file.

The audio output module 302D is used for outputting the decodedaudio/video for playing.

The matching database 302E is used for saving the recognitioninformation and controllable information which are separated from thevideo data.

The intelligent recognition module 302F is used for recognizing thephotographic object in the video file according to the separatedrecognition information, and creating a corresponding operation areaaccording to the recognized photographic object.

The intelligent interaction display module 302G is used for performing acorresponding operation according to the separated controllableinformation when an operation is performed on the photographic object inthe operation area of the recognized photographic object, when a videofile is played.

The technical solution of the present invention is illustrated below indetail in conjunction with FIGS. 4 and 5A-5C.

FIG. 4 shows a flowchart of an intelligent video interactive systemaccording to an embodiment of the present invention.

As shown in FIG. 4, the workflow of the intelligent video interactivesystem according to the embodiment of the present invention includes:

Step 402, a user selects a corresponding video file for playing, namelyselects video data containing data information, or a simple video file.

Step 404, when wanting to know the specific information of an object(photographic object), the user can do so by clicking on the object. Inthis embodiment, the user first performs an operation (i.e., clicking;certainly also possibly through other operation such as by touching thescreen) on the designated object in a video, and then determines whetherthe designated object is a photographic object capable of beingrecognized. Certainly, also possibly, the photographic object isrecognized first, and after being recognized, the photographic object issubjected to special displaying, and then the user performs an operationon the recognized photographic object.

Step 406, it is determined which video mode is selected by the user forplaying; if a special mode is selected, step 408 is performed;otherwise, the process jumps to step 402. In this embodiment, the usermay select video mode, wherein the special mode is the mode which allowsthe photographic object to be recognized as described in the technicalsolution of the present invention, and which supports the user inperforming an operation on the recognized photographic object in thevideo playing process. If the user selects the special mode, then thevideo data containing data information may be separated to obtain therecognition information and controllable information of the photographicobject so as to perform recognition and operation on the photographicobject; if the video played is a video file not containing datainformation, then the photographic object may be recognized through therecognition feature stored locally or stored in the cloud by theterminal. If selected by the user is not the special mode, then onlyvideo playing is allowed, and no operation on the photographic objectcan be performed.

Step 408, an interactive menu pops up to perform the dynamic interactionaccording to the selected content. The interactive menu which pops up isintended for a corresponding operation according to the controllableinformation.

As shown in 5A, the recognition information separated from the videodata and the controllable information associated with the recognitioninformation are stored into the matching database in the process ofplaying a video at the cellphone terminal (or other terminals such astablet computer, PC or the like), the photographic object 502 isrecognized according to the recognition information (or the recognitionfeature stored locally or stored in the cloud), and special displayingmay be performed on the recognized photographic object 502 (for example,a high light range is displayed), so an operation area (not shown in thefigure) corresponding to the photographic object 502 is created near thephotographic object 502. The user may perform an operation on thephotographic object 502 by clicking on the operation area of thephotographic object, the terminal retrieves the controllable informationin the matching data according to the operation on the photographicobject 502 to perform a corresponding operation, as shown in the figure,an interactive menu 504 pops up, so the user may perform a furtheroperation on the photographic object 502 through the interactive menu504. Certainly, also possibly as shown in FIG. 5B, a bubble box 506 ispop up after the photographic object 502 is clicked on, so theinformation about the photographic object 502 may obtained from thebubble box 506. A amplified display may also be performed on thephotographic object 502 after the photographic object 502 is clicked on,or a browser is called to directly switch to the corresponding websitelink page (as shown in FIG. 5C).

Step 410, the user selects a menu, such as the “detail” in FIG. 5A.

Step 412, the operation information selected by the user is sent to adesignated server, so a corresponding operation is performed accordingto the recognized controllable information. The operation functioncorresponding to the interactive menu is stored on the server in thisembodiment, and a response to the operation information may be madeaccording to the stored operation function by sending the selectedoperation information to the server.

Step 414, the server sends back the operation result, so for example abubble box of the detailed information about the photographic object 502as shown in FIG. 5B may pop up.

The technical solution of the present invention is described above indetail in conjunction with the accompanying drawings; considering thatin the prior art, when shopping online, a user purchases products bybrowsing webpage pictures, but the deviation between the real goodspurchased and the online photos is relatively large and the user cannotperform an operation on the photographic object in a video when watchingthe video, the operation on the photographic object can be performedonly by separate network searching and so forth. Therefore, the presentinvention provides a new data processing scheme, whereby thephotographic object in the video may be recognized, and a user may, whenwatching a video, perform an operation on the photographic object in thevideo without needing to perform the operation by separately searchingthe network and so forth, which helps simplify the user operation andimprove the user experience.

Described above are only the preferred embodiments of the presentinvention, which are not intended for limiting the present invention;for the person of ordinary skill in the art, a variety of modificationsand variations may be made to the present invention. Any modifications,equivalent replacements and improvements without departing from thespirit and essence of the present invention should be encompassed withinthe protection scope of the present invention.

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 11. A data processing method, comprising: a firstterminal performs image acquisition on at least one photographic objectentity, and encodes the acquired image and recognition informationcorresponding to at least one of the photographic object entities toform video data which is sent to a second terminal through a network;the second terminal receives the video data, and performs dataseparation on the video data to obtain a video file and recognitioninformation associated with at least one photographic object in thevideo file; the second terminal recognizes at least one photographicobject in the video file according to the recognition information, andforms an operation area corresponding to at least one of thephotographic objects in the video file; and when the video file isplayed, the second terminal, according to a detected operation action ona designated operation area, performs an operation function associatedwith a designated photographic object corresponding to the designatedoperation area.
 12. The data processing method of claim 11, furthercomprising: the first terminal receives recognition informationcorresponding thereto sent by at least one of the photographic objectentities, so as to encode the information into the video data.
 13. Thedata processing method of claim 11, further comprising: at least one ofthe first terminals is taken as a parent node, and all of thephotographic object entities are taken as children nodes, so as to forman Ad Hoc hierarchical network structure.
 14. The data processing methodclaim 11, further comprising: the first terminal further receivescontrollable information corresponding thereto sent by the at least oneof the photographic object entities, wherein the first terminal encodesthe controllable information and the recognition information inassociation into the video data, and the second terminal further obtainscontrollable information associated with at least one of thephotographic objects from the video data, and performs an operationfunction on the designated photographic object according to thecontrollable information when the operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected; or when the second terminal detects theoperation action on the designated operating area and reports thedetection result up to the first terminal, the first terminal sends thecontrollable information corresponding to the designated operation areato the second terminal so that the second terminal performs an operationfunction on the designated photographic object according to thecontrollable information.
 15. The data processing method of claim 12,further comprising: the first terminal further receives controllableinformation corresponding thereto sent by the at least one of thephotographic object entities, wherein the first terminal encodes thecontrollable information and the recognition information in associationinto the video data, and the second terminal further obtainscontrollable information associated with at least one of thephotographic objects from the video data, and performs an operationfunction on the designated photographic object according to thecontrollable information when the operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected; or when the second terminal detects theoperation action on the designated operating area and reports thedetection result up to the first terminal, the first terminal sends thecontrollable information corresponding to the designated operation areato the second terminal so that the second terminal performs an operationfunction on the designated photographic object according to thecontrollable information.
 16. The data processing method of claim 13,further comprising: the first terminal further receives controllableinformation corresponding thereto sent by the at least one of thephotographic object entities, wherein the first terminal encodes thecontrollable information and the recognition information in associationinto the video data, and the second terminal further obtainscontrollable information associated with at least one of thephotographic objects from the video data, and performs an operationfunction on the designated photographic object according to thecontrollable information when the operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected; or when the second terminal detects theoperation action on the designated operating area and reports thedetection result up to the first terminal, the first terminal sends thecontrollable information corresponding to the designated operation areato the second terminal so that the second terminal performs an operationfunction on the designated photographic object according to thecontrollable information.
 17. The data processing method of claim 14,wherein the controllable information comprises: menu data, linkinformation, and control command; and the operating function accordinglycomprises: creating and displaying a corresponding interactive menuaccording to the menu data, opening the link information, and executingthe control command.
 18. The data processing method of claim 15, whereinthe controllable information comprises: menu data, link information, andcontrol command; and the operating function accordingly comprises:creating and displaying a corresponding interactive menu according tothe menu data, opening the link information, and executing the controlcommand.
 19. The data processing method of claim 16, wherein thecontrollable information comprises: menu data, link information, andcontrol command; and the operating function accordingly comprises:creating and displaying a corresponding interactive menu according tothe menu data, opening the link information, and executing the controlcommand.
 20. A data processing system, comprising a first terminal and asecond terminal, wherein the first terminal comprises: an imageacquisition unit for performing image acquisition on at least onephotographic object entity; an encoding unit for encoding the acquiredimage and recognition information corresponding to at least one of thephotographic object entities to form video data; and a video datasending unit for sending the video data formed by the encoding unit tothe second terminal through a network; the second terminal comprises: avideo data receiving unit for receiving the video data; a dataseparation unit for performing data separation on the video data toobtain a video file and recognition information associated with at leastone photographic object in the video file; a recognizing unit forrecognizing at least one photographic object in the video file accordingto the recognition information; an operation area creating unit for,according to the at least one recognized photographic object, forming anoperation area corresponding to at least one of the photographic objectsin the video file; a video playing unit for playing the video file; anoperation action detecting unit for detecting an operation action on adesignated operation area when the video playing unit plays the videofile; and a processing unit for performing an operation functionassociated with the designated photographic object corresponding to thedesignated operation area when an operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected by the operation action detecting unit. 21.The data processing system of claim 20, wherein the first terminalfurther comprises: an information receiving unit for receivingrecognition information corresponding thereto sent by at least one ofthe photographic object entities, so as to encode the information intothe video data.
 22. The data processing system of claim 20, furthercomprising: at least one of the first terminals is taken as a parentnode, and all of the photographic object entities are taken as childrennodes, so as to form an Ad Hoc hierarchical network structure.
 23. Thedata processing system of claim 20, wherein the first terminal furtherreceives controllable information corresponding thereto sent by the atleast one of the photographic object entities, wherein the encoding unitis further used for encoding the controllable information and therecognition information in association into the video data, the dataseparation unit is further used for obtaining controllable informationassociated with at least one of the photographic objects from the videodata, and the processing unit is further used for performing anoperation function on the designated photographic object according tothe controllable information when the operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected; or when the operation action on thedesignated operating area is detected, the second terminal furtherreports the detection result up to the first terminal, and the firstterminal sends the controllable information corresponding to thedesignated operation area accordingly to the second terminal so that theprocessing unit performs an operation function on the designatedphotographic object according to the controllable information.
 24. Thedata processing system of claim 21, wherein the first terminal furtherreceives controllable information corresponding thereto sent by the atleast one of the photographic object entities, wherein the encoding unitis further used for encoding the controllable information and therecognition information in association into the video data, the dataseparation unit is further used for obtaining controllable informationassociated with at least one of the photographic objects from the videodata, and the processing unit is further used for performing anoperation function on the designated photographic object according tothe controllable information when the operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected; or when the operation action on thedesignated operating area is detected, the second terminal furtherreports the detection result up to the first terminal, and the firstterminal sends the controllable information corresponding to thedesignated operation area accordingly to the second terminal so that theprocessing unit performs an operation function on the designatedphotographic object according to the controllable information.
 25. Thedata processing system of claim 22, wherein the first terminal furtherreceives controllable information corresponding thereto sent by the atleast one of the photographic object entities, wherein the encoding unitis further used for encoding the controllable information and therecognition information in association into the video data, the dataseparation unit is further used for obtaining controllable informationassociated with at least one of the photographic objects from the videodata, and the processing unit is further used for performing anoperation function on the designated photographic object according tothe controllable information when the operation action on the designatedoperation area is detected; or when the operation action on thedesignated operating area is detected, the second terminal furtherreports the detection result up to the first terminal, and the firstterminal sends the controllable information corresponding to thedesignated operation area accordingly to the second terminal so that theprocessing unit performs an operation function on the designatedphotographic object according to the controllable information.
 26. Thedata processing system of claim 23, wherein the controllable informationseparated by the data separation unit comprises: menu data, linkinformation, and control command; and the operation function performedby the processing unit accordingly comprises: creating and displaying acorresponding interactive menu according to the menu data, opening thelink information, and executing the control command.
 27. The dataprocessing system of claim 24, wherein the controllable informationseparated by the data separation unit comprises: menu data, linkinformation, and control command; and the operation function performedby the processing unit accordingly comprises: creating and displaying acorresponding interactive menu according to the menu data, opening thelink information, and executing the control command.
 28. The dataprocessing system of claim 25, wherein the controllable informationseparated by the data separation unit comprises: menu data, linkinformation, and control command; and the operation function performedby the processing unit accordingly comprises: creating and displaying acorresponding interactive menu according to the menu data, opening thelink information, and executing the control command.